Copyright and related rights in relationship of employment of artists in entertainment shows
International Journal of Development Research
Copyright and related rights in relationship of employment of artists in entertainment shows
Received 06th December, 2018; Received in revised form 17th January, 2019; Accepted 08th February, 2019; Published online 29th March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Cyntia Cordeiro Santos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This work aims to discuss the possibility or not of transferring copyright and related rights in employment relationship of artists in entertainment shows, based on analysis of provisions of Laws 6,533 / 1978 and 9,610 / 1998. For that, initially, the distinction between concepts of copyright and related rights is done, analyzing them in their patrimonial and moral aspects. After that, it examines the principles of labor law, which rule all types of labor relations, including those signed with artists in shows, whether such relationships are maintained through employment bond or autonomous service provision. With the study of law 6.553 / 1988, which deals with work contract of artists and technicians in entertainment shows, the determining characteristics of work contract signed with the performer and interpreter of works are analyzed, in order to verify if there is possibility of assignment of copyright and related rights during the validity of aforementioned labor agreement.
